Professor, Tier I Canada Research Chair in Wireless Communication Networks

Biography: Weihua Zhuang has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, since 1993, where she is a Professor and a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Wireless Communication Networks.

Professor Zhuang’s research interests include wireless communications, wireless networking, and smart grid. Her current research activities focus on distributed network control and resource allocation, heterogeneous wireless and wireline interworking, information and communication systems for smart grid. Her extensive research works have been published in the first-rate IEEE journals and conference proceedings. She is a co-recipient of several best paper awards from IEEE conferences.

Professor Zhuang was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2007-2013), Technical Program Chair/Co-Chair of IEEE VTC Fall 2017 and Fall 2016, and the Technical Program Symposia Chair of the IEEE Globecom 2011. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the Engineering Institute of Canada. She is an elected member in the Board of Governors and VP Publications of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.